When the last geyser in Pacific Northwest went still in Lakeview
Oregon’s last geothermal water-blaster, Old Perpetual, erupted for the last time sometime in the spring of 2009; a few dozen years ago, the...
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A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories -- of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors and Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robber...
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Fossil Lake: Oregon’s answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits
Discovered (sort of) by Oregon's first governor, the dry lakebed in south-central Oregon's Lake County is a gold mine of Ice Age fossils, fr...
Town destroyed by its founder’s favorite garden shrub
Gorse reminded Irishman Lord George Bennett of home, so he planted it when he founded the Oregon seaside town of Bandon; years later, the go...
Steam excursion train line is now a new bike path
Until the 1980s, you could ride the "Blue Goose" up the Row River past where "Stand By Me" was shot, near Cottage Grove.. Today, it's a 15.6...
How Sheriff Bentley arrested legendary outlaw Hank Vaughan — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...
A special weekend episode to announce a live history show on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall! I...
World champion hired to humiliate town bully
All through the summer of 1973, there was one song on the radio everywhere that you just couldn’t get away from: Jim Croce’s smash hit, “Bad...
Oregon Indian prince was Japan’s intro to the West
In his short 11-month stay on the island nation, he taught 14 Imperial diplomats to speak English, and impressed them with his gentility and...
An unrecognized Indian prince’s quest to see Japan
Young Ranald MacDonald didn't know he was the grandson of Concomly, Chief of the Chinook Tribe. But before anyone could tell him, he'd run a...
Bike business in P-town ruined by ... prostitutes?
“World's Greatest Trick Rider” sold more than 50,000 bicycles in an age when bikes were the cutting edge of transportation technology; Orego...
Schemers sought to steal Peter Iredale shipwreck
Clackamas County man claimed his father had bought the salvage rights in 1908, setting off a huge dust-up among residents, beachgoers and po...
Uncle Dave's Incredible Shrinking Horse Story — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...
A special weekend episode to announce a live history show on Friday, May 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Polk County Fairgrounds in Rickreall! I...
The legendary lies and tall tales of Reub Long (2 of 2)
LEGENDARY RACONTEUR REUB Long, the “Sage of Fort Rock,” packed a whole lot into his 76 years living in central Oregon. Most of it — though b...
Rancher Reub Long, the legendary Sage of Fort Rock (1 of 2)
Oregon was once known as a place full of “great liars” — tellers of tales so tall they'd cause every pair of pants in the room to spontaneou...
War-games campaign blanketed Central Oregon
Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers, shipped to the Beaver State for training (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408d.ore...
Camp Adair hardened recruits with combat training — and poison oak (Part 2 of 2)
Built in six months, the bustling metropolis of 40,000 lasted just six years before being turned, by order of the U.S. Government, into a gh...
Oregon's second-largest city was built in six months (Part 1 of 2)
BY EARLY 1941, the U.S. Army knew it was about to get sucked into at least one of the wars that were already raging around the world. The Se...
Before news “crusade,” milk was killing babies
State regulators didn't care, so neither did some dairy farmers, who left dead cows to rot among their dairy herds and brought milk to marke...
Quest for lost gold mine led to 12,000-acre jewel
Searching for a fabulous source of gold formerly belonging to a friend who'd mysteriously disappeared, miners stumbled across Crater Lake. T...
Did L. Ron Hubbard battle Japanese subs off Astoria?
Pulp writer and religious figure L. Ron Hubbard figures prominently in the most spectacular story of action against “Japanese submarines” in...
‘Desperado’ became P-town’s first police chief
James Lappeus came to Portland from the gold fields of California, where he was a gambler, saloonkeeper and general mining-town rowdy. His c...
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